silver
https://brickseek.com/walmart-inv...=98208721
Blue
https://brickseek.com/walmart-inv...=91142335
Rose Gold
https://brickseek.com/walmart-inv...=64586524
Green
https://brickseek.com/walmart-inv...=31723423
Black:
https://brickseek.com/walmart-inv...=65439921
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not scientific, rather based on posts, suggest the Pattern :
blue: issues, including "crappy" touchpad, not upgrading to W11
black: minimal issues.
So I think I identified how to tell. I found another one at a different Walmart and as you can see in the pic, the sticker on the outer wrapper has a date. This is the one that I just got and the laptop has a touchpad is working great. I can also confirm that the system info says this one is from 3/2021. In contrast, the one with the bad touchpad that I have has a 3/2022 date on the outer sticker with system info showing 7/2021. They also have different wifi cards as someone had mentioned before. The one with the good touchpad also did not have a windows 11 sticker on the outside and did not prompt to update to windows 11 during setup.
Hope this is helpful for anyone looking. Look for the earlier build dates, in my case 10/2021 sticker was good and 3/2022 sticker was bad. I'm not sure it actually correlates with color but build date instead.
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Blue
https://brickseek.com/walmart-inv...=91142335
Rose Gold
https://brickseek.com/walmart-inv...=64586524
Green
https://brickseek.com/walmart-inv...=31723423
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She will love this! I just went ahead and bought it. She mainly needs better ram and storage. This being a decently new i5 is a cherry on top. She is not a tech geek so the screen should be fine. And to top it all off, OTD was $265.
I will set it up for her tomorrow and see how it holds up. I can give an update/first hands review when I am done with its setup!
Edit: I posted a small first hands review and wanted to put it here in case more people could see it. Also, ours does charge on USB-C.
So I picked it up last night and opened it to see how the general build quality was. Everything felt great. The top cover I believe is metal. The bottom is plastic. Keyboard is decent actually so far. I don't like the layout, but travel seems to be decent. Screen is alright. Not the brightest, but we should not expect that at this price. Colors are fine, I am guessing this is somewhere in the middle of 45 to 72 NTSC.
Setting up was quick and she seems to be able to use it fairly fine. I made sure that it had all internals. I am weird about that stuff so I just make sure. 16 gigs ram, i5, SSD. All checked out. I saw a youtube video about this exact same laptop from I believe ETA prime and apparently, the BIOS is decently untouched, so you can go and tinker. He upped the TDP on the i5 from 15 to 30 and it doubled his benchmark scores. We won't be doing that yet unless she thinks it's slow but it feels speedy even to me. I am sure that bump could also eat battery life if not plugged into power.
Seriously, it felt good enough that for $265 OTD I went and bought another this morning to have around as a spare laptop. As someone else mentioned, the internal components alone are probably worth more than the price. I am getting a keyboard, screen, fan, and chassis for free.
And yes, mine also has a spot for an SSD upgrade.
Hope this helps someone!
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Sacramento CA 95834
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They're inventory control is infamously inaccurate even when talking to people at the store.
I have to question what percentage of people bought this and did not have issues with quality, build etc. Going by past threads on this model.
My thoughts on the 15.6" issues: Dim screen (probably no more than 200 nits; I have no idea what the sRGB rating is but colors look washed out and not very vibrant at all); terrible keyboard, doesn't feel good; horrible trackpad - inconsistently registers taps; battery doesn't last very long (maybe 4-5 hours); very heavy - feels like it weighs 6lb!; when opening the laptop/lifting the lead, it feels like it is going to pop off and the hinges even visibly buckle a bit; the chassis is very cheap, made of plastic and flexes A LOT if you carry with one hand [so use two hands!]); doesn't have an ethernet port (wish it did, but it seems these are becoming a rarity - I knew that when I bought it but still miss the feature). Oh, and the charger is not easy to fit into the charging port. The problem is that one side has the charger port and the other side has the headphone port, AND both ports are the same shape and size.. and the indicators on the chassis are in a pale white color (on a bright pink case!) that is VERY hard to see. I have plugged the charger cable into the headphone jack more than once, by accident. Yes, this is my fault, but they could have also used a different jack for the charger, OR had the port for charging on the back of the laptop (to make it less likely for a dumb user like me to plug into the wrong port!).
Good points: Very easy and painless upgrade to Windows 11; runs Ubuntu (Linux) fantasically [I dual boot Win 11 & Linux); WiFi is not blazing fast but OK. There is also a easy-access port on the bottom, held in place with a single screw, that allows you to add an M.2 SATA SSD (not NVME!). This is a painless way to upgrade storage space, without having to buy a new SSD, clone the old onto the new, remove the whole bottom case and replace the drive. Very nice feature. (I have not bothered to upgrade it, though - 256GB is enough for what I use it for; basic web browsing and productivity tasks).
She will love this! I just went ahead and bought it. She mainly needs better ram and storage. This being a decently new i5 is a cherry on top. She is not a tech geek so the screen should be fine. And to top it all off, OTD was $265.
I will set it up for her tomorrow and see how it holds up. I can give an update/first hands review when I am done with its setup!
Edit: I posted a small first hands review and wanted to put it here in case more people could see it. Also, ours does charge on USB-C.
So I picked it up last night and opened it to see how the general build quality was. Everything felt great. The top cover I believe is metal. The bottom is plastic. Keyboard is decent actually so far. I don't like the layout, but travel seems to be decent. Screen is alright. Not the brightest, but we should not expect that at this price. Colors are fine, I am guessing this is somewhere in the middle of 45 to 72 NTSC.
Setting up was quick and she seems to be able to use it fairly fine. I made sure that it had all internals. I am weird about that stuff so I just make sure. 16 gigs ram, i5, SSD. All checked out. I saw a youtube video about this exact same laptop from I believe ETA prime and apparently, the BIOS is decently untouched, so you can go and tinker. He upped the TDP on the i5 from 15 to 30 and it doubled his benchmark scores. We won't be doing that yet unless she thinks it's slow but it feels speedy even to me. I am sure that bump could also eat battery life if not plugged into power.
Seriously, it felt good enough that for $265 OTD I went and bought another this morning to have around as a spare laptop. As someone else mentioned, the internal components alone are probably worth more than the price. I am getting a keyboard, screen, fan, and chassis for free.
And yes, mine also has a spot for an SSD upgrade.
Hope this helps someone!
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She will love this! I just went ahead and bought it. She mainly needs better ram and storage. This being a decently new i5 is a cherry on top. She is not a tech geek so the screen should be fine. And to top it all off, OTD was $265.
I will set it up for her tomorrow and see how it holds up. I can give an update/first hands review when I am done with its setup!
Steal of the century!
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Anyone know the battery life?
Yeah that makes me not want it at all. Considering the typical low end for a crap screen is 250 nits.
A lot of people dont really care about the display as long as you can use it though.
Oh well none showing in stock on the 2 provided BS links for me (weird that all the BS links werent posted like they usually are)
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